Active-TV Technology for iPhone and iPod touch

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An easy to use iPhone and iPod touch App that enables both new and advanced YouTube users to get the best from YouTube.

Browse video Standard Feeds, Categories, Channels and Playlists. Then organize new videos into your own favorites and playlists. Make playlists private or public. Subscribe to other user's playlists and video collections for future viewing. Subscribe to videos matching search-words.

Search for new videos tagged for your language or geographical region, using local keyboard. Explore for new videos via easy switching of user ID to the owner of interesting videos - then explore their world.

All actions are kept in sync with PC, Mac or Apple-TV access to YouTube. Available at Apple App Store.

active-TV technology for PC

Windows PC based home network

Friday, May 12, 2006

Google thinks hybrid-STB and post linear-TV

Active-TV ecosystem developers,

Much of the converge market dreamers have focused on premium video content distribution via IPTV. What might be called a type or pear-pressure may have driven participation in a frenzy of legal, content protection and revenue sharing issues. This may have contributed to the downfall of the UK BT entertainment chief after his statement: “It’s not about the content”; He was replaced with a former Universal Studios executive with plans for a BT [UK telco] television service.

Over at the BBC they are no less ambitious, but certainly more restrained about the imminent dominance of IPTV – BBC director: “I’m not a swivel-eyed looney that sees the end of conventional television overnight”.

IMS Research estimates that by the end of 2005, there were over 9 million integrated DVRs shipped worldwide. Growth in the DVR market is expected to come primarily from operator deployments [MSOs]. By the end of 2010, a forecast 136 million TV households worldwide will employ an integrated DVR box.

The ability of DVR to erode TV advertising revenue is not part of the familiar convergence frenzy. Advertising erosion is in a denial stage, as there is no agreement on an alternative; and denial is seen as better than panic. Interesting, the erosion of linear-TV advertising is likely to be most significant in the US market where the uptake of IPTV is likely slowest.

As more considered views of convergence appear, Google wants to hire a “Product Manager for Interactive TV”. They will “identify key market trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television”. Google go on to say: “intersection of internet and Television technologies, video-on-demand, DVR and emergence of next generation set-top-boxes with IP connectivity”.

Of interest is Google’s mention of the STB with IP connectivity – also know as the hybrid-STB. It is clear that hybrid-STB adoption is a significant trend. With Google’s increased attention to the hybrid-STB, maybe Intel will direct more effort to a ViiV hybrid-STB rather than ViiV DMA. AMD and active-TV partners appear ahead of both in terms of an Extended-PC and hybrid-STB ecosystem development.

The 10-foot role of the Extended-PC is to run media application software – then project the UI over the home network to the TV. With the inclusion of advanced video CODEC support in the STB SOC, the hybrid-STB can directly support IP-TV viewing. A PC in the living room is not the only way to view IP-TV. The Extended-PC may have more of a role in supporting new forms of TV advertising. Active-TV developments have been pushing relevant developments. They already have projects, plans and collaborators for the support of new forms of advertising supported by an active-TV ecosystem

Google hopes to identify “search and advertising technology”, for which they can no doubt be a key supplier. Search engine usage is a widely accepted 2-foot PC task. This has enabled Google to develop a 2-foot advertising business. It is not clear that TV watchers want a 10-foot search engine; after all, the TV is an entertainment device, not an information device. Search engine usage may not give Google the ‘TV exposure’ and hence an advertising role. Maybe the advertising support role falls more naturally to the IPTV aggregator; Or to those able to synchronise media applications to IPTV or broadcast TV service.

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Navigate YouTube

Free Windows download

Want to see how it Active-TV Technology for the PC looks on a TV, then downloadthe PC emulation of TV operation. D-Link's site also includes active-TV technlogy support for the DSM-520. (Windows XP or MCE). Navigation is via the left-right arrows and F12 is used for 'back'. The bundle uses an easily changed example menu system.

Active-TV technology enables the Set-Top Box (STB) or TV to display TV-web with the same universal access and opportunity available to PC with PC-web.

Active-TV technlogy uses the same PC browser to process PC-web and TV-web pages, but a browser plug-in sends the TV-web image to a networked thin-client for display on TV.

A networked home PC or laptop computer which assits with formating the TV-web image, is known as an Extended-PC.

Video can be streamed directly to the STB or TV; or it can pass througth the ExtendedPC, where it may be reformated. The video encoding format (CODEC) may be changed (transcoded) by the Extended-PC to accomidate STB or TV capabilities.

Build a TV-web channel

A networked PC and TV supporting Active-TV Technology enables viewing of TV-websites. Download a free TV-web channel below. They can be reused when constructing a new channel. Documentation is also available. Make sure all files (such as C:\Program Files\Common Files\TV-Websites) have permission for all Users to access.